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title: Then did they all, and Sir Agloval with them, so straitly pray the u… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then did they all, and Sir Agloval with them, so straitly pray the uncle that he granted their request, and never might ye see at any time folk so blithe as were these knights in that Sir Perceval would ride with them. Who acts: Sir, ye, time folk, uncle. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Re
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 87

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Then did they all, and Sir Agloval with them, so straitly pray the uncle that he granted their request, and never might ye see at any time folk so blithe as were these knights in that Sir Perceval would ride with them.

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**Who acts:** Sir, ye, time folk, uncle · **What happens:** do, pray, grant, not see, be, ride · **To what, where:** all, uncle, request, Perceval · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, ye, time folk, uncle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:10:87
# text = Then did they all, and Sir Agloval with them, so straitly pray the uncle that he granted their request, and never might ye see at any time folk so blithe as were these knights in that Sir Perceval would ride with them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	straitly	straitly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	blithe	blithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
40	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:desc	_	_
41	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | all  uncle |  |  | then | Agloval  Sir with uncle *parataxis* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pray** | present |  | the uncle |  |  |  | straitly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grant** | past | Sir | uncle's request |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **see** | might | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | Perceval  that  Sir |  | as this knights | tree rules |
| 6 | **ride** | would | any time folk |  |  |  |  | with uncle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **request** |  | uncle |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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